Don't keep 'Company'

2:05 PM,
Apr. 24, 2013

Robert Redford in a scene from the motion picture 'The Company You Keep.'

Written by

Randy Cordova
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

Hate to say it, but it's true: At 76, Robert Redford is simply too old to play a former '60s radical in "The Company You Keep."

In one scene, the camera lingers on one of his character's various IDs, and the date of birth shaves off a decade from Redford's real-life birth year. The actor also produced and directed the film, which could be why no one told him he looks like a man firmly in his 70s, especially on the big screen. Redford's senior-citizen posture doesn't help the decades melt away, either.

Redford plays a widowed lawyer with an 11-year-old daughter who has been living in Albany, N.Y., using ...